Torchlight: Infinite's Tartarus season is live with a new Follower system

Torchlight: Infinite has a new season. According to the game’s official announcement on Steam, Tartarus began on October 16 and is built around a prison break across the Netherrealm.

The seasonal mechanic: running a prison

As the Warden of Tartarus, players chase down escaped inmates and collect their Prisoner Nameplates, then manage the prison as they see fit for a 20-day sentence. Inmates can be set against one another in a pecking order of Mammoth, Lion, Wolf and Colossal Rat, and feeding the winners eventually produces Chromatic Prisoners. Torture Instruments and random Prison Incidents are meant to keep each patrol from playing out the same way.

Once the 20 days are over, a riot starts. Players then fight the beasts in the central prison complex for Warden’s Caches.

Youga’s new Hero Trait

Spacetime Witness Youga gets a new Hero Trait, The Ultimate One. Instead of calling alternate versions of himself into battle, this take on the character hunts them and absorbs their power. Players build him around a Clockwork Core and can mix three development paths.

Followers

A new progression system adds Followers: allies recruited with Letters of Introduction from the interrogation room. Each Follower has exclusive Tartarus Skills, and every skill that drops comes with random Support Skills; higher-ranked Followers can equip more of them. Ultimate Followers can be recruited as well.

Rewards for new and returning players

• Daily check-ins hand out the season’s Rare and Magic Drop Pactspirits, and logging in seven days in a row earns a Legendary Drop Pactspirit Selection Pack.
• Playing through the season’s events earns 30 draws for Legendary Battle Pactspirits, plus Rare seasonal Drop Pactspirits, materials to level up Insignias and a weapon skin you can’t get elsewhere.
• A limited-time event awards Cloudgatherer - Surging Gold and Happy Chonky, and a new Pactspirit Rally feature arrives alongside it.

Other changes

• Afterlight becomes a core system with its own Talent Constellation.
• Nether King’s Divinity drops much more often and can now be traded in.
• Supreme Showdown adds a mechanic called Star’s Fall and a boss lineup that rotates.
• Improvements land in Outlaw, God of Machines, Trial: God of War and the pool of Netherrealm maps, and the Fire Lord “Flame Forger · Burning Heart” gets stronger.
• Memory Revival results can now be rerolled.
• The Trade House gets condition filters and shareable presets; compasses and map materials can be marked as favorites and saved as presets; loot drops are processed much faster.
• Three existing heroes get updated models and skill effects, and campaign stages and a large share of the audio have been redone.